Stronghold 2 (Stronghold 2 (PC))

Member Name: sharpe106

Product:	Stronghold 2 (PC)
Date:	08/03/09 (52 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: easy to play

Disadvantages: needs lots of patches

Stronghold 2 is a 3D real time strategy game for the PC and was released in 2005. It is playable both single player and multiplayer. The original game was released in 2001.

The game is set in medieval times and after saving your lord from his enemies you are rewarded with your own castle and land to rule over and defend. You have to protect your castle from sieges by creating walls, towers and training units, whilst making sure you have enough resources available to survive the siege by making your castle self sufficient. In some missions you have to create an army to attack and conquer your enemies castle.

To help you there is two advisers who will give you advice on what to build and what units to train, you can also align yourself with smaller villages and castles for extra resources and trading.

There is a large selection of units and siege weapons to train and research as well.

There is two main campaigns to the game one of peace and one of war, the peace campaign is mainly economic based whilst the war campaign gets you fighting battles against your enemies. You can also play the game either skirmish or free build as well.

A good addition to the game is a scenario editor where you can create your own missions although this can be quite hard to do.

Controls/Graphics

The graphics are pretty good although at times they can seem pretty basic and the controls are basic and easy to learn.

Difficulty

The AI of the game is pretty good and the computer is fairly hard to defeat at times although after a bit of practice you should easily be able to complete the game.

Multiplayer

The multiplayer is pretty basic and just allows you to play against other players although it has a habit of losing connection to players so you have to restart often.


Value for Money

A good strategy game that is fun to play and fairly hard to complete, the game does not suffer from micro management like some games that are similar. A big improvement on the original game. The single player is short but still good to play

Additional Information


The game is rated as 12.



System Requirements

Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
1.4 GHz Processor
256 MB RAM
2.5 GB HDD space
32 MB DirectX 9.0c Graphics Card
Keyboard
Mouse

Difficulty - 6 out of 10
Game play - 8 out of 10
Graphics - 6 out of 10
Multiplayer - 4 out of 10
Story - 8 out of 10
Value - 8 out of 10
Overall - 6 out of 10

Summary: easy game to play